Posted on 11/20/2004 9:07:01 PM PST by LouAvul
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peru will not abide by an international human rights court ruling supporting the release of Lori Berenson, a New York woman imprisoned for collaborating with Marxist guerrillas, the country's foreign minister said, according to news reports Saturday.
The Inter-American Human Rights Court, the Costa Rica-based legal arm of the Organization of American States, is scheduled to deliberate Berenson's case Nov. 24-25 to decide whether she received a fair civilian retrial in 2001. Peru is an OAS member.
"If this error were made, the Peruvian state, with legal justification, would take the position of not liberating any person accused of terrorism," several newspapers quoted Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez saying Friday from Santiago, Chile, where he attended the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
"In no case would any disposition be observed that recommends freedom of people accused of terrorism in Peru."
Berenson, 34, was arrested in 1995 for allegedly helping the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. Former President Alberto Fujimori identified her as a leader in a foiled plan to seize Peru's Congress and exchange hostages for imprisoned MRTA members.
Berenson was convicted by hooded military judges, who denied her a chance to present evidence or cross-examine witnesses. She was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
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Peru is on our side in the Global War Against Terrorism. The Peruvians apparently understand President Bush's admonition: You are either with us or you are with the terrorists. Berenson is a terrorist. They know that. So refusing to release her proves they are with us!
Too bad they did not execute Lori Berenson. She really has a warped mind.
She needs to stay there. For her own good.
Don't worry, the UN is set to give this woman the Rachel Corrie Memorial Idiot Collaborator award.
Next she will be up for a Nobel Peace prize.
Then, after 27 years, they will make her queen of Peru.
Sure. That makes sense. Right?
She deserves to be in the dungeon for aiding the scions of Che!
Viva Peru!!!
Leave to the "international human rights court" to always rule in favor of Marxists and terrorists.
Let this be a lesson to the American Leftists: your Leftist pansy lawyers have no power beyond the U.S. borders. And it won't be long before they don't have any power here, either.
Typical NY liberal. Or is her family from MA.
Sounds like what they did with South Africa...
Yes, there was a theme there. [wink]
Good for Peru!
As far as I'm concerned, they could have put her before a firing squad.
C'mon Alex, in the spirit of Bill Clinton, pardon the terrorist. After all, as Clinton is quick to point out, the world loves him.
Doesn't it?
Let her ROT!
Ah, yes. Another great ruling by yet another kangaroo "international" institution.
It's probably beyond the mental capacity to consider that helping people prancing around
your home, brandishing automatic weapons, and making fake ids might, just might, be justification
locking the bimbo up for life.
Unless, of course disbarred Bill Clinton is on the court.
No doubt this is why carter and clinton campaigned for his ouster.
I have always been confused/intrigued by the Japanese connections to Peru.
Wow...just the other day I was thinking it was about time for the world's marxists to make yet another plea for Comrade Berenson's release. Good on Peru for not budging. Here's to hoping Lori lives a long and unproductive life in that miserable prison high on the cold, barren plain in the Andes.
I believe they're from Massachussetts. They're hard-line communists and raised Lori as a red diaper doper baby. They must be proud of themselves and their efforts. They and Rachel Corrie's parents were cut from the same mold.
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